Onion: Ultra realistic modern warfare game features awaiting orders, repairing trucks

I actually picked up Modern Warfare 2 today so this is extra amusing.


Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks

Interestingly enough, I enjoyed the original Operation Flashpoint because you did things like ride in the back of trucks for minutes at a time, take training courses, and do guard duty. It was a very immersive game that relied very heavily on you making the right moves at the right time, but didn't constrain you to the point that the correct choice was obvious. This also gave you multiple ways to accomplish objectives such as retaking bases, searching the woods for enemies, and trying not to get fucking killed all the damn time.

Quote of the truth about handguns

I put 30K rounds through my $300 (in 1994) Ruger P-89 with only one trip to the factory for repair and it only misbehaved when I used non-factory magazines, crappy Egyptian military surplus ammo, or it was extremely dirty. The $2000 STI has had numerous repairs with about the same number of rounds through it and the Gun Blog 45 has the paint wearing off and the LDA trigger is a piece of crap.

Sometimes I hate my guns.
~Joe

"Woke up in a car

that was tokyo drifting everywhere."

Suicide more likely for census worker hanged with "fed" on chest

Yahoo News: AP sources: Suicide eyed in Ky. census worker case

Interesting.

I was wondering what was happening with this case.

My first guess may turn out to be accurate.

Tremendous Ca. parole failures allow 18 year-long kidnap and rape of 11 year old girl

Criminal.

Absolutely criminal.

What's worst is the knowledge that heads will not roll for this.

The parole system is a giant amorphous blob of buildings, cars, paper, computers, and lastly, people. You'd have better luck trying to nail jello to the wall.

Disgusting.

Absolutely disgusting.

Cyanide and Happiness: Waiting For The Bus

A tragedy that should have been averted

SB Sun: Three-year-old found gun, shot himself in face

RIALTO - A 41-year-old grandmother is the center of a police and Child Protective Services investigation after the woman's 3-year-old grandson got ahold of a .22-caliber handgun and shot himself in the face.

Leaving a firearm where it can be accessed by children who have no firearm safety instruction is an accident waiting to happen.

The law calls it criminal negligence, but it's just stupid. Now a child is gone because of this woman.

Quote of the Debt

I'm not convinced the majority of people are up to the task yet we protect them from their own stupidity almost as if they were children who would grow up someday. I sometimes see a future where the system collapses and Darwin collects on a massive debt we have been accumulating for the last 100 years. It would have been far, far better in so many ways to pay off Darwin in regular installments than to have the Grim Reaper swing his scythe in such a broad swath as I sometimes see as plausible.
~Joe Huffman

A quote of the day off of a different quote of a day. Very meta.

Best commercial ever

"The meteorite is indifferent."

Word Disassociation - Lemon Demon

Repostery!

How long until CBS is "not a real news organization"?